This person created a more democratic provincial assembly in Berry, ended the practice of mortmain in royal lands, and scaled back tax farming, all earning the ire of the nobility. The count of Maurepas exposed the deceptions in this man's Report to the King, which combined with his sympathies for the peasantry to lead to his first ouster. Earlier, he had married a woman w
This person created a more democratic provincial assembly in Berry, ended the practice of mortmain in royal lands, and scaled back tax farming, all earning the ire of the nobility. The count of Maurepas exposed the deceptions in this man's Report to the King, which combined with his sympathies for the peasantry to lead to his first ouster. Earlier, he had married a woman who had previously broken an engagment to Edward Gibbon and who set up a leading salon, named Suzanne; together, the couple became the parents of Madame de Staël. He became prominent by writing a screed demanding restrictions on the grain trade and by euologizing Jean-Baptiste Colbert, who had served Louis XIV in an analogous role to this man. For 10 points, name this Swiss-born banker who failed to prevent the French Revolution with a constitutional monarchy proposal and was three times finance minister to Louis XVI.
This person created a more democratic provincial assembly in Berry, ended the practice of mortmain in royal lands, and scaled back tax farming, all earning the ire of the nobility.
Jacques {Necker}